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Encryption is the process of transforming information (called plaintext) into an unreadable form (called ciphertext) using an encryption algorithm combined with a parameter (called an encryption key). Only those who possess the decryption key can reverse the process and recover the original ...

I have a problem, a WS requires me to sign what I send in sha1-rsa base64, I made a script who encodes the string with the xml, but It seems to need another type of encoding, I heard something about ...

I know it could be easier with https connection, but for the university project there is no money for that. We have an Apache2 Webserver, but are not able to include a certificate due to permission ...

I'm researching vendors which allow ssl termination and inspection, I came across cisco CWSA technology, the technology was somewhat easy to understand the stuff which really boggled my mind was the ...

I have run an experiment of AES encryption using Eclipse and Netbeans on mobile and PC, the results of speed performance confusing me abit, it shows that speed on PC is slower than it on mobile, as ...

I have two databases . I copied all the data from one table and inserted into another database table . I have created symmetric key on second database but when i try to run the query as follow
OPEN ...

I want to use has_secure_password to store encrypted passwords in the database. I can't find on the the internet if has_secure_password uses any form of salting. If it uses salting, how does it works? ...

I have been trying to implement some encryption between an iPhone app and a PHP web service. It's not working however. It seems like the first half of the text is NOT decrypted while the second half ...

Many users – myself included – would like the security of having everything they do on a web service encrypted. That is, they don't won't any one at the web service to be able to look at their: posts, ...

I'm an ASP.NET / C# developer. I use VS2010 all the time. I am thinking of enabling BitLocker on my laptop to protect the contents, but I am concerned about performance degradation. Developers who use ...

Someone told me that he has seen software systems that would accept MD5 encrypted passwords (through various integrations with other systems), decrypt them, and store them in the systems own database ...

I have an interesting encryption problem at hand. I do not know if it can be solved but here goes:
A database is to contain sensitive user information. As such, the user information must be encrypted ...

Client has an simple increasing order number (1, 2, 3...). He wants end-users to receive an 8- or 9- digit (digits only -- no characters) "random" number. Obviously, this "random" number actually has ...